Certain Quote by Kate DiCamillo

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or…

— Peter Straub

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care.…

— Terry McMillan

The real world is cruel, but in the comfort of literature it can bring some light.

— Jeremy Limn

The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go…

— Clint Eastwood

What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a…

— Joy Williams

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are…

— Martin McDonagh

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple…

— John Updike

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

— David Lynch

I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.

— Ray Wise

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

— William Shatner

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

— H. W. Brands